Cisco Systems, my employer, laid off 4000 people yesterday, 5% of our total headcount. I’m lucky enough to still have a job. I know people who were unlucky. There but for the grace of God go I. It is a strange feeling working in corporate America, where a giant sword of Damocles hangs over your […]
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I wrote a post recently back about my near-death experience due to lack of sleep after being asked to lay off five people. The Wall Street Journal, right on cue, publishes an article entitled “Layoff Tactics Keep Changing, and the Blunders Keep Coming” (paywall). It seems that when Amazon decided to lay off 14,000 (!) […]